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Based in Münster,
Germany, Yeye Weller (real
name Boris Bromberg)
found his passion for
illustration through skateboarding
stickers and adverts for brands like
Santa Cruz, and a childhood love of
The Beatles’ animated film Yellow
Submarine. “All those colours, the
music and the awesome style of
Heinz Edelmann is timeless. I always
wanted to create something like it,”
Yeye says. He founded his own skate
brand at 14 thanks to a cracked version
of Photoshop: “It was totally noobish
and we just sold shirts to friends, but
this was the starting point,” he says.
“I was never a talented draftsman, but
I always had a good eye for design and
a feeling for balance and colours...
with time and practice my drawing
skills became better.”
Yeye’s creative process starts with
listening to music and drinking coffee,
doodling on paper, then digitising
successful images in Photoshop
using his “old Windows computer, a
cheap scanner, a Wacom Intuos3 and
Photoshop. That’s all I need. I love
the possibilities to correct mistakes,
change colours and save projects
whenever I like.” His focus is on
“flashy and harmonic” colours, used
with blocky black outlines to delineate
strange, surreal characters and scenes
with flashes of Memphis-like patterns.
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COLOURFUL, FUN ARTWORKS WITH A NOD TO HEINZ EDELMANN
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